Compromise Humor Quotes & Sayings

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good. — Sebastian Vettel

I will never compromise on my poorly-thought-out, internally-inconsistent,
quasi-irrational principles. That's just how I roll. — Jessica Park

IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, "Please sir, might I have some more?" would be ignominious, except that he isn't shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ignominious illustrations. They are shamefully weak because the person who drew them is not an artist. — Lois Lowry

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. — J. Carter Brown

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. — Stephen Fry

Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey
Fatone's last name was going to be "Fat One" no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their
age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise. — Mindy Kaling

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. — George Will

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself ... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice. — Anthony Burgess

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil — Novala Takemoto

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat. — Amanda Grange

And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush.
"What do you have?" asked Sharie.
"Potato salad".
"What else is there?" asked Sharie.
"Nothing" said Miss Mush.
"Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that."
"Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush.
"No,nothing." said Sharie. — Louis Sachar

It's not all about love. That's half of it ... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.' — Marc Maron

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? — Laurell K. Hamilton

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. — Bertolt Brecht

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced. — Dennis Prager

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction. — Richard L. Evans

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way. — Margaret Atwood

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist. — Pablo Tusset

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same. — Heywood Broun

Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces. — David Limbaugh

Suppose, before you beat the stuffing out of me, you tell me who you are and explain why. Then I may or may not take it like a man, depending on whether or not I agree with you. — Ashlyn Macnamara

She was his life, his everything. — Katie Reus

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. — Danny DeVito

How about a compromise? I'll kill them, and if it turns out they're friendly, I'll apologize. — Rick Riordan

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. — Janet Evanovich

You mean something like 'truth or dare'? I haven't played that in a long time." She didn't think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Succeed at home first. Seek and merit divine help. Never compromise with honesty. Remember the people involved. Hear both sides before judging. Obtain counsel of others. Defend those who are absent. Be sincere yet decisive. Develop one new proficiency a year. Plan tomorrow's work today. Hustle while you wait. Maintain a positive attitude. Keep a sense of humor. Be orderly in person and in work. Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes. Facilitate the success of subordinates. Listen twice as much as you speak. Concentrate all abilities and efforts on the task at hand, not worrying about the next job or promotion. — Stephen R. Covey